Arena Friday 2 May 2014
on Thursday's show....Paul Whitington and Áine O'Connor review "The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society", "Let The Sunshine In" and "Never Steady, Never Still"; Irish electronic dancefloor-fillers, Le Galaxie in session on the release of their new album "Pleasure"; and Declan Long tells us about the celebration taking place in Vienna this year to mark 100 years since the death of Austrian artists Gutav Klimt and Egon Schiele, both of whom were killed by the 1918 flu pandemic.
Arts News
with Alan Corr - Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and Jonathan Price in the cast of the BBC tv adaptation the Wolf Hall, Jeremy Paxman to try his hand at comedy, a growing hurling hip hop culture in Ireland - rap song The Art of the Clash already making waves
Brown Bag fundraising film
Damien O’Connor and David McCamley from Brown Bag films talk about their new short film “Anya” made to raise funds for the Debbie Deegan charity To Russia With Love
Watch the film at brownbagfilms.com
Donate at torussiawithlove.ie
Ireland/Hungary cultural links
Evelyn O’Rourke reports from the launch of the book “The Club At Eddy’s Bar” by Zoltan Boszormenyi which explores the cultural links between Hungary and Ireland (published by Phaeton Publishing)
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Homophobia and football
the actor/playwright Rob Ward talks about his role in “Away From Home”, a play about the culture of homophobia in football which is on in Dublin next week as part of the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival
Full listings at www.gaytheatre.ie
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Album Reviews
Sinead Gleeson and John Meagher review new albums - "Sheezus" by Lily Allen, "I Never Learn" by Lykke Li and "Nikki Nack" by Tune Yards
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Music Played on the Show
Air Balloon
Lily Allen
4:03
Silver Spoon
Lily Allen
0:50
Love Me Like I'M Not Made Of Stone
Lykke Li
3:41
Sleeping Alone
Lykke Li
2:54
Water Fountain
Tune Yards
0:55
Wait For A Minute
Tune Yards
0:58
Arena With Seán Rocks
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Presenter: Seán Rocks